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CHAP, bunt, when he feparates the flour from the bran, founds 



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, ing tuckety-tuck and tuckety-tuck ad perpetuum. To this 

 noife they dance with uncommon pleafure, and moft 

 times foot it away with great art and dexterity. 



« Saltantes fatiros imitabitur Alphifibceus." 



Every Saturday evening, the flaves who are well treated 

 clofe the week with an entertainment of this kind, and 

 generally once a quarter are indulged with a grand 

 ball, to which the neighbouring Haves are invited ; the 

 m after often contributing to their happinefs by his pre- 

 fence, or at leaft by fending them a prefent of a few jugs 

 of new rum. 



At thefe grand balls the Haves are remarkably neat, 

 the women appearing in their beft chintz petticoats, and 

 many of the men in fine Holland trowfers. So indefati- 

 gable are they at this diverfion, that I have known the 

 drums continue beating without intermiflion from fix 

 o'clock on Saturday night till the fun made its appear- 

 ance on the Monday morning ; thus had palTed fix-and- 

 thirty hours in dancing, cheering, hallooing, and clap« 

 ping of hands. The negroes dance always in couples, 

 the men figuring and footing, while the women turn 

 round like a top, their petticoats expanding like an um- 

 brella; and this they c-siSi waey-cotto. During this, the 

 by-ftanding youths fill about the liquor, while the girls 

 encourage the performance, and wipe the fweat from the 

 brows and fides of the unwearied muficians. 



